[jblay]

I was a scorekeeper at the Boston regional this year and can tell you what the system was there at least, I do believe that this is the system used all over FIRST, but I cannot be sure.

We had 2 scorekeepers per side standing away from each other and counting the discs that went in. The most important thing to count correctly was the autonomous round, because after the match you could just take that figure and subtract it from the discs in the goals and get your teleop scores.

We were instructed to count throughout the match, if a robot released a frisbee during auto it counted as an auto regardless of when it went into the goal. This never really came into play from my experience, but it was something I was curious about and that is what the FTA told us.

At the end of the match we would take a look at the goals before emptying them to double check what we counted and make sure it was correct. If the goals were too full to count by looking up through the lexan goals we would clear the area, let the discs drop and count them individually.

We would turn in sheets with the discs we counted to the scorer and that would be the score posted post match.

Hope that helps.